An Analysis of Health Care Assessments Used for Sustaining Communities

Vereda Johnson Williams

Abstract

This research addresses the needs for creating realistic health care assessment methodologies. The informationacquired from health care assessments shape the policies which will ultimately sustain communities. Health careassessment tools and methods dictate the priorities of community health care. These priorities assist with thedevelopment of community health care research, the exploration of community based need initiatives and thedesign of pertinent policies which meet the demands of community health care. Community health assessmentinvolves people and allows them to express their views, which leads to more self esteem, particularly indisadvantaged communities. Participatory community health care research relates to the continuity of theeconomic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society, as well as the non-humanenvironment in which our communities thrive. This research will review the current literature pertinent toparticipatory action research. Additionally, this research will address the advantages, disadvantages and theethical issues of participatory action research methods. Selected case studies are used to explain communitybased models which have identified necessary strategies which have been utilized to articulate and assist currentcommunity health issues in specified populations.

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